"Why shouldn't the United States treasury continue to buy silver after December 31 at 77.57 cents an ounce, and continue to issue it as money at $1.29 an ounce, and make that handsome profit," said C. W. Beale, Wallace attorney, at the Davenport...

The republican state organization will look before it leaps into work of drafting a party platform at the next state convention. Working on the theory "no man's or no party's judgment can be better than his information," J. N. Emerson of Pullman,...

A million bushels of seed from 220 fields have been inspected and accredited in the state of Washington this year, announced Leonard Hegnauer, extension agronomist, State College of Washington. The best varieties of wheat, oats and barley for...

The Dalles, Ore. - Clearing of willows on the local waterfront was started last week by J. A. Terteling, Boise, Idaho, contractor, preparatory to starting of work on the $142,000 revetment being erected here by the government to protect The Dalles...

Works progress administration officials are not too happy these days, since President Roosevelt issued a "stop order" on further public works administration projects. PWA has dealt in projects costing $25,000 or more. WPA has provided relief for...

"Warehouses are full--the 750,000-bushel elevator is full--and nobody wants to sell any wheat." In between telephone calls to Seattle, Charles Johnson, purchasing agent for Northwest Grain Growers' took time out to give a Chronicle representative...

The $17,000 WPA project for improvement of the Greenacres irrigation district is being completed, according to WPA engineers at the Hawthorne building. The project consists of five miles of lateral ditches, dug and cemented by the crew of WPA...

Liberal King about to sink - A station on the main tunnel level of the Liberal King Mining company, in the Pine creek area of the Coeur d'Alenes, is nearing completion, according to George H. McGinnis, a mining man of Kellogg, Idaho.

Shingle mill buyers praise native cedars - Frank Keidel and Paul Nelson of Portland have purchased the Ed Fanslow shingle mill, one mile east of Whitefish, taking possession this week. Both have been in the business all their lives. Mr. Keidel...

Battle on rust impresses Leavy. - Congressman Charles H. Leavy is much impressed with work done in controlling blister rust in northern Idaho's forests, he told the Chronicle's correspondent at Newport today after he and Mrs. Leavy returned from a...

Connor heads F. D. R. greeters. - A reception committee, to greet President and Mrs. Roosevelt when they stop briefly in Spokane after inspecting Grand Coulee dam Saturday of next week, was named yesterday by Dana Child, democratic county chairman.

Case has bearing on prison terms. - More than 30 prisoners in the penitentiary at Walla Walla may gain their freedom if the circuit court of appeals sustains recent decisions of Federal Judge J. Stanley Webster of Spokane.